For the present, let us keep the matter a close secret.

Do not let him see he is under suspicion, and we will not move until certain there can be no mistake in the matter." A few minutes later the two walked out of the front door, which was carefully locked behind them, and sauntered homeward.

The younger man went to the chief hotel of the town, while the elder continued up the highway, thinking deeply over the subject he had just discussed with Catherwood.
Now, it so happened that Josiah Warmore, the merchant, was a far shrewder man than G.Field Catherwood suspected.

If the latter had been playing a part, so had the former.
As has been intimated, it came to the knowledge of the merchant, about a fortnight before, that some one in his employ was systematically robbing him.

Gatherwood first dropped a hint, and then both investigated so far as the opportunity allowed.